Alejandra Tapia

Copy Editor at the Center for Research and Gender Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a BA in English (UNAM) and an MA in Japanese Studies (El Colegio de México). Her graduate research project dealt with the concept of death in the novels of one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese writers, Haruki Murakami. She has worked as a teacher, copywriter, academic manager, and has 15 years of experience as a translator and editor in publishing houses such as Tusquets, Paidós, Penguin Random House, and Santillana. As a literary translator, her last work is Mi esposa y yo compramos un rancho, written by Harrison and Matt Query (Planeta 2023). As member of the advisor committee of the University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa (PUEAA) has coordinated, along with Vania De la Vega Shiota, both the Reading Circle on Gender in Asia and Africa (2020), and the International Seminar on Japanese Literature and Gender (2020). She has also participated in Tsundoku, the podcast of Japanese Literature of The Japan Foundation Mexico and The Japan Foundation Madrid. Currently, she is the academic coordinator of the Fátima Mernissi Chair at UNAM (2023-2025).